HMR Human Rights

Courses in HMR:

HMR001—Human Wrongs/Human Rights(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s).Introduction to Human Rights and the problems they seek to address. Using key episodes of inhumanity like slavery, genocide, and racism. Examines how international movements for social justice led to the emergence of the international Human Rights system.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.

HMR120A—Art, Architecture, & Human Rights(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Study of human rights as they relate to art, architecture, and cultural heritage. Examines museums, art collections, and cultural-heritage management, their relation to the cultural prerogatives of communities and indigenous groups, and protection of cultural heritage during war and conflict.(Same course as AHI 120A.)(Letter.)GE credit: AH, DD, SS, VL, WC, WE.Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.

HMR130—Special Topics in Human Rights(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):HMR 134 or RST 134 recommended.Thematic study of human rights. Topics may include contemporary or historical issues in the promotion, protection, and violation of human rights; human rights and the arts, religion, literature are possible topical areas. May be repeated for credit when topic differs.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper/Discussion—1 hour(s).Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of the origins, evolution, denial and protection of Human Rights.No credit for students who have completed RST 090.(Same course as RST 134.)(Letter.)GE credit: AH, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2014 Spring Quarter.

HMR134—Human Rights(4)Review all entriesActive

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper/Discussion—1 hour(s).Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of the origins, evolution, denial and protection of Human Rights.No credit for students who have completed RST 090.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2019 Winter Quarter.

HMR136—Human Rights in the Middle East(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Study of the experience of Human Rights in the modern Middle East, with special attention to the Human Rights issues raised by events of Arab Spring; Palestine-Israel conflict; history of genocide, mass killing and totalitarianism in the region.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.

HMR138—Human Rights, Gender, & Sexuality(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Gender and sexuality in the context of human rights. Topics include women's participation in the public sphere, the right to change gender, the right for family privacy, and the right to marriage. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2018 Fall Quarter.

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper/Discussion—1 hour(s).Critical analysis of the dictatorships and civil conflicts that took place in Cold War Latin America. Case studies focus on the violation of human rights as well as on the political and cultural battles for truth, justice, and reconciliation that take place in the aftermath of those violations. Emphasis on how memory is constructed, in what forms, by whom, and for what purposes.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2019 Summer Session 2.

Lecture—3 hour(s); Web Electronic Discussion—1 hour(s).History of the origins, development, and state of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL) in Europe. Emphasis on Enlightenment-era and modern theories of the source, utility, and limits of human rights.(Same course as HIS 126Y.)(Letter.)GE credit: SS, WC.Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.

HMR190—Seminar(4)Active

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Emphasis on current scholarly debate about the methods for analyzing and comparing diverse human rights issues with the intention of integrating disciplined study of the field.(Letter.)Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.

Variable—3-15 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.Opportunity for advanced undergraduate students to work with a faculty member in a focused manner on a topic or topics of human rights.May be repeated for credit.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.

HMR200A—History, Theory & Criticism of Human Rights(4)Active

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Graduate standing or consent of instructor.Restricted to graduate students.Introduces the advanced study of Human Rights and the theoretical and practical elaboration of the international Human Rights system. Seminar engages with criticism of Human Rights and develops research and teaching within disciplinary and interdisciplinary frameworks.(Same course as REL 231E.)(Letter.)Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.

HMR200B—Memory, Culture, & Human Rights(4)Active

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Graduate standing or consent of instructor.Restricted to graduate students.Explores the multiple convergences among memory, culture, and human rights. Discusses diverse approaches to how societal actors in different historical, cultural, and national settings, construct meanings of past political violence, inter-group conflicts, and human rights struggles.(Same course as CST 210.)(Letter.)Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.

HMR298—Group Study(1-4)Active

Variable—1 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.Restricted to graduate students.Group study on focused topics in human rights. Four-unit courses may serve as electives for the Designated Emphasis in Human Rights.May be repeated up to 16 Unit(s) when topic differs.(Letter.)Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.